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Ideas for marketing Wittgenstein to kids.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

The University of Pittsburgh is one of the top research institutions in the nation. I have close colleagues there. And due to this regime’s war on science, they are pausing PhD admissions university wide. That includes their NIH funded programs. We’re going to lose a generation of researchers.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

every single transportation conversation ever

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Remind me: where does the buck stop?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"NPC" as an insult has its roots in 4chan memes and suggests not only that some categories of people aren't really people, but that they are disposable in a moral sense. It is not just an illiberal insult, it is a fascist insult with genocidally violent undertones.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Don’t elect heirs.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

DEI is the most popular thing in this list lmao

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

so far we've got hochul and pritzker already latching onto the king thing, this is gonna be the message everyone can coalesce around and i think it'll stick. we don't have kings here.

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

Republicans are traitors who support a tyrant. People are saying it more and more.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is so profoundly anti-American one of our state flags is a half-naked lady killing a dude for it.

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

*extremely ‘I write editorial comment for the FT’ voice*. Completely agree with this and also feel like it’s in part a manifestation of how UK has turned inwards. Even much of the political class seems unaware of how important and significant all this is for UK prosperity and security.

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

He declared himself king of a republic. That is a threat and it should be treated as such.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

There was what seems like a pretty bad car accident in Crouch End, North London, apparently due to a police chase. This used to be the sort of thing that Twitter was excellent at. Now I can't find anything about it here and only one mention of it at the other place. No actual news coverage yet.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Just going to say this again, but general aviation accidents are extremely common. Commercial airliner crashes (especially with fatalities) are a completely different story.

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 202 comments

When somebody says a gov't choice saves $X million, covert it into money saved per capita per year. Then covert that to how much coffee you could buy. A grande latte from the Peoria, IL Starbucks costs $5.49. So, saving $8 million over 5 years is 0.17 millimeters of latte per American per year.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments